UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS

FRENCH WORKSHOP
GRADUATE PROGRAM IN THE HUMANITIES

FALL 2009
HUMANITIES 7320
SECTION 501
M. 7:00-9:45 p.m.
JO 4.122

Dr. Michelle Prud’homme

Office Hour: 6:00-7:00 in JO 5.712 and by appointment
Office Phone: 972-883-2170
Home Phone: 214-544-7678
Email: helenprudhomme@utdallas.edu

REQUIRED TEXTS

An exhaustive English/French—French/English dictionary

ADVANCED LANGUAGE WORKSHOP: FRENCH

The purpose of this workshop is to help students meet the school’s requirements for advanced
reading and comprehension of French by M.A. and Ph.D. candidates. They should have attained at least
intermediate competency (usually equivalent to four semesters of college French courses) before
registration. Course work includes textual analysis as well as some supplementary grammar review,
designed to facilitate the decoding of texts in various fields of the arts and humanities. The final
examination for the workshop is also the program’s language proficiency exam, which consists of two
trasnslation passages (one from a primary source, the other from a secondary source).

The instructor will provide packets of Xeroxed texts for students to translate each week at home.
She will also furnish additional materials upon which quizzes will be based (i.e. lists of essential verbs and
idioms, discussions of common structures, translation tips, etc). A final grade will be awarded based on
student participation, quizzes, homework assignments, and the final examination.

The attached schedule will serve as a general guide for our work over the semester; however, we
can modify this program slightly should students need more time to master particular concepts.
COURSE CONTENT

AUG. 24 INTRODUCTION

AUG. 31 LIGHT READINGS AND GENERAL REVIEW

SEPT. 7 HOLIDAY

SEPT. 14 READINGS FROM THE 17TH CENTURY

SEPT 21 READINGS FROM THE 18TH CENTURY

SEPT. 28 READINGS FROM THE 18TH CENTURY Quiz

OCT. 5 READINGS FROM THE 19TH CENTURY

OCT. 12 READINGS FROM THE 19TH CENTURY Quiz

OCT. 19 READINGS FROM THE 19TH CENTURY

OCT. 26 READINGS FROM THE 20TH CENTURY Quiz

NOV. 2 READINGS FROM THE 20TH CENTURY

NOV. 9 READINGS FROM THE 20TH CENTURY Quiz

NOV. 16 READINGS FROM THE 20TH CENTURY

NOV. 23 PRACTICE TESTS Take-home Quiz due

NOV. 30 REVIEW

DEC. 7 FINAL EXAM PART I

DEC. 14 FINAL EXAM PART II

GRADES:

Class work (preparation, participation) 25%

Quizzes 50%
Final Exam 25%

ACADEMIC HONESTY

Students should feel free to consult with each other on homework assignments and to
avail themselves of dictionaries, grammar books, etc. We will always go over the
homework assignments as a class so that questions may be addressed. All quizzes and
tests, however, must be the result of each student’s individual effort. Students may not
engage in cheating, plagiarism or collusion during examinations (N.B. French/English
dictionaries may be used during the take-home test and practice tests).

HAVE A TERRIFIC SEMESTER!